Testing in the Yocto Project

Posted May 21, 2019 9:04 UTC (Tue) by metan (subscriber, #74107)
In reply to: Testing in the Yocto Project by Cyberax
Parent article: Testing in the Yocto Project

At least people from various kernel QA departments started to talk to each other in a last year or so. I suppose that there is enough funding already but the real problem is that every company works more or less in isolation. Maybe we can solve that with standard interfaces and components so that each company can plug in a hardware they care for into a virtual kernel testing lab, at least that seem to be a way things started to move slowly on. The problem now is that the problem is complex and as far as I can tell there is no significant manpower behind it.

Testing in the Yocto Project

Posted May 23, 2019 4:33 UTC (Thu) by tbird20d (subscriber, #1901) [Link]

Indeed. A group started to get together last year, and made some progress at least articulating some of the issues involved.
See https://elinux.org/Automated_Testing_Summit_2018 and https://lwn.net/Articles/771782/

I'm aware of 3 different get-togethers to continue working on pushing stuff forward: A testing microconference at Plumbers, a kernel testing summit immediately after Plumbers, and the 2019 Automated Testing Summit after OSSEU/ELCE in France. Some of these have not gotten much visibility yet, but hopefully that will change shortly.